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SUPPLEMENT TO THE DAILY BULLETIN.
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HOOLurjIJ, II. I., HCXNDAY, JUNE 11, 1883.
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London Gossip
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Of course society in Spain is full
of Uio marriage of Prineessc Mnrin
to Prince Louis of Baravia. Dona
Maria is young and pretty. She is
blonde, ii rare colour in ypain. She
is very accomplished, and speaks
several languages. The happy cou
ple, putting their fortunes together,
will have about 40,000 a year to
live on.
The Papal 'Nuncio in Paris will bo
sent to Moscow to represent His
Holiness the Pope at the coronation
of the Tsar. Poor man !
Abiit, excessit, evasit, erupit! It
was but yesterday I heard this well
known passage rendered as fol
lows: "Abiit," he went out to
dinner; "Exccssit," hci drank too
much ; "EvasitJ? ho said it was tlio
salmon j "Erupit" he was very ill.
Shades of sacred Home! Could
classical profanity any futlier go?
1 observe an artiolo on Churchyard
Poetry in the current number of
Mucin Man, gives the old epitaph,
Hero lies the landlord of the Lion;
lie's bulled here in hopes of Zion,
His wife, lesigncd to Heaven's will,
Curries on the business still.
with the comment that the force of
advertising could no further go. In
bo far as the epitaph's locality is con
cerned, it is pretty strong, I am
ready to admit, but just lead this
advertisement .from a Spanish nows
, paper, and tell me whether you don't
look upon it as a most curious
example of the way in which the
human mind will sometimes, even iu
the hour of bitterest affliction con
trive to combine the sorrowful with
the sordid:
" This morning the Saviour sum
moned from his shop to another
happier world, Siebald JUtnaga, the
jeweller. The undersigned, his
widow, will weep abovo his grave,
as will also his two daughters,
Hilda and Emma; the fenner of
whom is married, and the latter is
awaiting an offer. The iuncral will
take place to-morrow.
His disconsolate widow,
VeHOXIQUK IliLMAG.l.
Notici:. This bereavement will
not interfere with the business,
whicli will be removed from No. 3,
Teisse do Teinuriers to No. I, Hue
.Missionaire, in couscquenco of the
greediness of our landlord, who has
raised our rent."
The French for Mrs. Malnprop is1
..evidently Madame Cannivet, who is
credited, with many strangely con
torted! savings. Here is ouo of them.
She latefy bought an engraving of
the well known pioturo of Bonapurto
crossing the Alps, which she des
cribed as "Napoleon traversant lo
Mont Sarah Bernhardt."
A poor .Towisli watchmaker of
Kisheuov in Russia, has just finished,
alter two sycars constant labour, an
ingenious mechanical clock, which
at certain hours' of the (lay plays the
National Anthem "God protect the
Tsar," and gave a mimio represen
' tation of the Coronation ceremony,
- complete in all details,' Wlifen the
qlook strikotho hour, Jwodoors fly
open and disclose, a perfect model of
,,tho Cathedral of, thei Assumption at
i Moscow, whore, as is well known,
the Tsars aro crowned. Then the,
gates of the Cathedral ,opoi), and
the interior is visible. ' The Metro
politan of Moscow, surrounded by
, numerous dignitaries of tlio Church,
attired r in,, their gorgeous robes,
awaits the entrance of the Emperor
and Empress, and sprinkles them,
with holy water as' soon as they
reach the altar; thereupon the Etn
pcron takes a golden crown from the
hands of the Metropolitan, and
places it on hi own head. Tho
Emperor then places another crown
on the head of his Consort, and tho
doors of tho Cathedral close. This
ingenious picco of mechanism will
bo prebonted to their Imperial Ma
jesties by, the constructor immediate
ly after tho Coronation.
The other day that staunch organ
of" ttlo Papacy, tho Giornalo di Mo
ma published a fulminating article
against v.'ica'cs circuses, aud musio
halls ''Ilea vca" it said, "bcudsflro,
tno purifying c'.,cet. Y P'B? o
land of these nests J 'l!ty' J lw
next number of the tomale con.
tained an account of tho tructioij
of a church at Nice by (Ire.
Publicans should take warning h?
tho bad example of tho landlord of
a little inn at n village on Dartmoor.
The wife and sister-in-law of this
unfortunate gentleman became ardent
votaries of Blue Itibbonism, and not
satisfied witl advpeating the advant
ages of abstinence, left tho inn and
refused to return until tho sign liud
been taken down and thd sale of
intoxicating' liquors abandoned.
After a-short; but futile, resistance
the good man surrendered to petti
coat . government, aud struck his
flag; i.e., hriulcdid6wn thd obnoxious
sign. The inn exists no longer, but
domestic harmony is rcstdrcd.
The Orleans Princes, faithful to
tho family traditmn'oflookihg after
the pounds and ponce, aro said to
have mortgaged all their estates in
France for 8,000iti00 sterling, so
that-they could how look upbn their
expulsion with a smile.
Summer promises to bring some
very Startling designs in ladies' dress
from Paris, Large patterns appear
to be the rage, and full moons, half
moons, squares, and trianglcSj fig-
urc largely on most of M. Worth's
productions. It requires a tall,, fine
figure to carry off these eccentricities
to advantage, and ladfes of short sta
ture would do well to avoid them.
SUGGESTIONS TO AGRICULTURAL
SHOW COMMITTEES.
There arc some agricultural socie
ties iu tho colony which conduct
their annual exhibitions upon the
whole very creditably, but there are
others that cannot bo thus compli
mented. Visitors are, however,
agreed that even among the best
conducted shows.thcrc still rcinaiud
room for improvement, and if this
be so the condition of the admittedly
less well managed exhibitions would
profitably engage the attention of
those officers upon whom the socie
ties have appointed to the honor and
invested with the responsibility of
carrying out the arrangements
connected with their aunual agricul
tural shows. As the show committees
are now beginiiiug to prepare their
autumn programmes', the time is
opportune for the offering of a few
suggestions towards making these
aunual Catherines more interesting
and instructive to the public, and
anything gained in this direction the
societies will admit jnust also tend
towards their own advantage. First
of all, committees iu making their
appointments should avoid the blun
der of clashing with the dates chosen
by others. It seems' to be .regarded
as immaterial that the date of one
exhibition should clash with that of
another so long as the exhibitions
are not iu the same district. This
is, however,i a narrow view. Well
conducted shows are not interesting
only to the local inhabitants, as
visitors from a distance arc anxious
to know what is being done in other
localities. Implement salesmen and
other business men who deal with
farmers also wisli to be present, and
it is inconvenient for them to be
properly represented at two, three,
and as sometimes occurs, four dif
ferent localities on tile one day.
Show committees, are "unanimous in
deploring the difficulty that exists
with respect to obtaining the services
of competent gentlemen from 'a dis
tance to act as judges, so, as to avoid
the objection generally existing
"against local men. "Why' then should
they deliberately aggravate this dilli
culty by persisting in1 the datc-clash-i
ing' blunder? A common grievance
'on the part of visitors', even' I'to tno i
'shows i which -in other respects are
well conducted,- is with respect to
the incomplete labelling of the cx
i hibltsi Tho'grand'ond sought to be'
attained by an agricultural exhibition
is to improve the knowledge of- tho
community with respect to fanning
and stock raising affairs;' To this
'end subscribers pay their contribu
tions, and tho Government contriT
butes itu'anuual subsidy. What it
is often asked is the reason for the
proverbial dearth of instructive in
formation procurable at agricultural
shows? Our investigations upon this
pojut convince us'that it is not the
fault of ike exhibitors. The secre
tary's entry took- coutuins, a inoqt
Interesting fund of information frinir
iahed by the owners of tho oxhibita
t tho time of entering, and this
doubtless could bo supplemented to
any required extent for tho mere
asking. The public, however, do
not iu any way benefit from the fact
that this information has been sup
ied by exhibitors. Tho entry cards
a,u posted) but a reference to them
supplies the spai-sost; possible amount
of information, It b&ouuj to ho t
ti'iit't of tho majority of show coin,
niu'cs Ihut l,is J"1"01'8 Bl"dl ho
carefully kcl,t '" ftf'Wfinco of any
particulars conoal8f i oxjliUlta
iu order that their j iur,uct bhoiild"
not bo biassed, but this now."1 hm
over iiiul over again been demons
trated to bo as pointless us it is un
complimentary to the gentlemen ap
pointed to the onerous work of
ndlvUlication.
What the public who go to shows
want to sec is the information which
is to bo found in the secretary's
book posted oii the tickets. Is it a
horse, bull, cow, sheep, or pig, then
the public wisli to be able to ascertain
by reference to tho card nailed to
the peri tho name of. the animal, its
breed,, age, pedigree, and all about
it; together with the name and ad
dress i of its owner and breeder. Or
is it' a samplo of agricultural or
dairy produce, then the names and
addresses of the growers or makers,
the variety of, grain, where grown,
when sown, the kind of soil, how
tilled, the yield" per acre, tare among
the particulars required ; and of the
dairy produce, a few details connected
with feeding and manufacture may
be suggested as tho direction iu
which a valuable fund of much in
formation might bo briefly and easily
supplied. A due appreciation of
the important part played by the
agricultural press in disseminating
information by means of their reports
of tho shows distinguishes the best
managed agricultural societies of the
colony, and everything is done by
them ,to facilitate the work of the
agricultural reporter. In some in
stances the i obtaining of, a proper re
port is rendered mosti difficult by
causes over which the societies have
no control. Amortg th'cso may be
mentioned the laches of judges.
Some judges send a note of apology
a day or so before tho exhibition,
and arrangements are-interfered1 with
and delay caused by the necessity
for obtaining a substitute on the
ground at the last moment. Others
arc in the habit of coming late, thus
keeping their more punctual colleag
ues waiting and, generally putting
every tiling out of gear." No one who
has been honored with an invitation
to act as a judge1 at an agricultural
exhibition should accept-the appoint
ment unless he intends faithfully to
be on hand punctually to the day
aud hour named. Late judging
means late announcements of the
awards, a hindrance to proper re
porting, and great dissatisfaction to
the visitors. Exhibitors and visitors
alike have a right to see the winning
prizes, and often the posting of the
awards1 is done in so dilatory a
manner that the majority of the
people have loft before the work is
finished. The same remarks ,that
we bave applied lo judges are ap
plicable to the stewards. Sometimes
punctual judges are delayed by
negligent stewards. No steward
should allow himself to be nominated
who docs not intend to perform his
work punctually,! promptly and faith
fully. With Tcspect to the award
ing of prizes, the provincial societies
would do well to note how successful
has been tho change made bjr the
Metropolitan Association iu an im
portant department of their exhibits.
No prizes are now offered in the
implement and machinery classes,
ant the, resqlt proves thp wisdom
of the change. The prize system in
these .classes, .for reasons thatw.e,
have already gone into iu detail,
does uot work'well. It should be'
made' a regulation, however, that
each 'exhibit Buoutd bear' a card
riotifylhg thd 'price. ' Another featuro
that has been; found successful in
some pf 'the' Oxhibitioiis of the west
ern district has been tho' offering 'of
well bred sheep 'by' leading breeders.
By winning a ' prize b'f this1 'kind
many a farmer 'lias been1 initiated
into 'the advantages accruing from
keeping well bred' sheep in' combina
tion with his 'farming- operations,
niidjms since followed up tho prac
tice to his own and tho general wel
fare. Melbourne Leader,
FISHERIES EXHIBITION.
Tho opening of tho Fisheries Exhi
bition in London, on May 13, was
a brilliant affair. Although it
raiijed steadily throughout, the
decorations, were profuse and, effect?
ive. A;iie wnoio of tho itoyiu
Family, except tho Queen, were
present, a? well fV3 tho members of
the Cabinet, tU Vorejgtj JSmbasslos,
pud Colonial Commissioners,, There
wuro numbers of foreign fishing gills
present dressed In their national
costumes, find hundreds of British
fishermen were admitted. After a
grand procersion through tho courts,
tho Duko of Richmond delivered an
address, iuu JJia Royal Highness tho
Prince of Wales then formally
opened tho Exhibition, promising to
read ft paper by His Hoyul Highness
tho Duke of Edinburgh hoforo tho
Fisheries Congress. The collection
n tho 'Exhibition is very complete In
all respects', mS there is un unequal
led display of Ufo-saving apparatus,
Tho Canadian is the best colonial
court. The British, Swedish, and
Dutch courts are also excellent.
DKSCUIl'TIOX OP TIIK KX1UIHT10N.
On entering from the Exhibition
rdad by' tho doorway near the
cutranco of the National Portrait
fcrallcry, the visitor finds at the' end
of the short vestibule an opening
giving access to the ilisli market.
This will be n novel feature of tho
Exhibition, for here will be sent
specimens of tho rarer kind of fish
brought to land daily, as well as
supplies of tho ordinary Btocks of
tho fishmonger But in order to
make tho public acquainted with tho
lqss generally-known varieties of
food the sea yields, lectures and
practical demonstrations will be given,
under thoidircction of Mrs. Clarke,
by members of the National School
of Cookery, and the conveniently-arranged
theatre, in whicli instruction
on this subject is to be given, is now
being decorated nt the expense of
the Baroness Burdett Coutts, as well
as nn adjoining dining room, in
which a fish dinner at a trifling charge
will be prepared each day. To se
cure a supply of the fish required f or
these purposes, tho Fishmongers'
Company have made a contract for
tho regular delivery of a specified
quantity, and here many Londoners
will probably first knowingly taste
the rokcr, the ling, the cat-fish, con
ger, weavers, hake, the g'urnard, and
tho coal-fish. In tho long southern
transept will be nets, fishing-gear,
boat models, and all that appertains
(to the, sea-fisheries of Great Britain,
while such things as arc, employed in
our fresh-water fishing are in the
parallel transept to the north, where
thd opening Ceremony was held.
Between these have been erected
many buildings, some connected
with them, iu which space is appor
tioned to different Stated, others
detached, which are appropriated to
particular classes of exhibits. Paral
lel to the southern transept arc the
departments for machinery iu motion
and tor life-boats and life-saving
appatatiis. Near by is a separata
shed, in which two coastguard men
will attend to explain the working
of rpeket apparatus approved by the
Board of Trade. In another place
Siren fog-horns aud .caloric fog
signals may be seen, but, in consi
deration to the dwellers in the
neighbourhood, rarely heard. On
cither side, that is, to east and west,
arc .aunexes, in whicli aro exhibits
from China, and Japan,- the Straits
Settlements, and our Australian
colonics, on the, one baud,, and from
the Wes.t Indies, Hawaiian Islands,
Portugal, France, Austria, Poland,
Germany, Italy, and , Greece on the
other, Russia has a separate build
ing, and a corresponding one has
been put up for Spain, the Govern
ment having shown their interest in
the Exhibition by sendih'g a onau-of-wnr
along the. coast of 'Spain to, col
lect exhibits. Canada, the United
States, and Newfoundland, Sweden,
Norway, Denmark, Holland, and
Belgium, will sill send contributions.
The-permanent arcades' andr quad
rants of tho 10G2 .Exhibition aro
being, turned to .account, and, to the
,west will bp the the aquaria,, foil tho
illustration p fish, culture, and with
specimens, of fish attacked by para
sites. The fountain basins ami cages
placed hi the, northern, part of itho
grounds will boused for tho exhibi
tion of birds and beaste that prey,
upon the finny tribe. Stuffed' fish
caught by .members of angling clubs,
wil bo slipwu in the, west iquadrant,
and additional valuo will be given to
the natural history department by the
Exhibition in a building near the
new Natural History Museum of the
fine collection of fish preserved in
spirit iiqjv to be brought from
Bloomsbury. It remains to be
added thot, iu order to make th$
Exhibition as truly popular as could
bo desired, it will bo kept onen in tho.
evening, iui( lu'WIautly lighted by
qiecirjuiy,
"Thirty dollars fifteen dollars for
a npving bonnet!" gurgled Jones as
ho looked from tho bill to his wife.
"Mrs. Jones, it's an outrage a gross.
imposition." "Yes, but that's 'J10
prlue." I'd better have married a
milliner instead of a society lady."
"Yes, that's what all Sly friends
seem to think" ho demurely replied,
Ho got red in iho fctcc and growled
and kicked tho footstool ncross tho
room, but by-nndby looked up and
said, "And by tho way, darling, you'd
better got quo of thoso ten-dollar hats
which become you so, too. I want
you to look' pretty, no1 mutter what
it costti,
THE BEST DOOR TO STOP FIRE.
A number1 of experiments have
been made in 'this country to test tho
value' of different materials for doors
thai may bo exposed to Arc, f rbm
which it appears that perhaps the
best ddor yet dcvlSed is one made of
wood nilO covered with tin. The
door is formed of solid planks, or
boards matched and fastened together
and crossing at a right angle, or at
15 degrees. There should not bo
less than two thicknesses in nny
door, and its many more should bo
used as the size of tho opening to be
closed demands. This solid wooden
door is then to bd completely covered
on every side with tinned sheet iron,
all the joints being soldered as in
making tin roofs. The tinned door
is supported by hnngcis moving on
nn inclined rail or track over tho
doorway, sd that when free to move
it will closo by its own weight. At
the door-jamb opposite the door,
when it is open, should be a wooden
casing covered on every side with
tin, and into whicli the door will fit
tightly when it closes, by moving on
its track, the inside of tho casing
being wedge-shaped. Tho casing
on the opposite sido must fit the
door closely so as to leave no cracks
at the sides of tho door. To keep
the door open a small bolt is placed
on the inside of the door-jamb, the
pressure of the door keeping the
bolt in position. On the under sido
of the arch or top of the door is a
'wire having a joint or link in tho
centre, .this link being soldered with
fusible metal that will melt at 1G0
dcg. Fahr. , Just -above the bolt
that holds the door open is a weight
supported by a wire connected with
the wire holding the fusible link.
This weight moves in guides and ' is
wedge-shaped below. The threshold
of the door, should bo of brick ' or
stone to resist fire, and high enough
to keep out water in case the room,
is flooded. From the reports and
experiments it appears that sucu a
door is thoroughly reliable, the soft
metal link parting even in the heat
of a fire in a building on the opposite
side of the street, and allowing tho
weight to fall,' pushing the bolt one
side and pcrmittiog the door to close.
Such wooden tin-covered doors and
window shutters are reported to stand
unharmed through severe trials when
iron doors have failed, melted, or
"warped under less exposure to fire.
The door and tho automatic device
for closing ft aro officially recom
mended by some of the leading fire
insurance companies of this country.
Melbourne Jjeader.
SEVENTY BROTHERS.
Tho 'following incident, which, was
related by a gentleman just arrived
from the British possessions, is suffi
ciently novel to entitle it to a place,
iu our columns. It occurred, we arc
assured, about one hundred miles
from Foit Walsh, last "Winter. A
band ofaCrce Indians woke up one
snowy morning to find that) about a
dozen of their choicest pouies had
been taken during the night. Pursuit-was'
soon orgauizcd,inud within
a few hours a fresh trail, was-fouml
in tho snowi After, following tho
trail Bomo thirty miles it entered
Saskatchewan River, the, animals evi
dently heading, for wooded island
in tho middle of tho river.. Smoke
was rising from among the rocks aud
trees on the island.' After some rc
fconnoiteriug an, opening, which
seemed to bp the mouth of a cave,
could bo seen in the faco of tho, rocks.
Presently a single Iudinn aPiegoiif
tho pursuers decided from his ap
pearance showed up in front, of the
opening. Ho was painted and ar
rayed gaudily. Pretty son n dog at
his feet scented tho Crcs and began
growling and barking. Tho Picgau
instantly turned nr.d entered thocavo.
In a moment another Picgan came
nrou.ua tho roks uud also went in ;
then another, and another, and an
other, thro being a few seconds be
tween .'oem, Tho Crecs lay silently
iu tho bushes watching and counting
until upward of fifty Picgans had
como, around tho rocks and gono in
to Vne eavo, and still they kept coming .
What seemed rcmnrkabjo was tho
fact tiat all these Indians were, to
all appearances, exactly tho same
size, were dressed aud painted ex
actly alike, each carried a Winchester
rifle, aud most remarkable of all,
each ouo seemed ft little lame in the
left foot, limping slightly, They
were a gaudy crowd! aud tho Crces
counted seventy of them. That
seemed to be all, for, no more came.
As tho idea of sovcuty twjns was an
impossibility, the superstitious Crecs
naturally, concluded, that tho,, evil
spirit had something to do with it, .
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